Professor Peter Wilson
William Ritchie Professor of Classics
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Department of Classics and Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Office: Mungo MacCallum 810
Phone: (02) 9351 3249
Fax: (02) 9351 3918
Fields of Expertise
- History of the Classical theatre
- Greek literature and culture from Homer to the Hellenistic age
- The sociology of Greek music.
Education
B.A. (Hons.) University of Sydney; Ph.D. University of Cambridge
Selected Publications
Books
The Athenian Institution of the ‘Khoregia’: the Chorus, the City and the Stage, Cambridge University Press 2000; paperback edition 2003
Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies, ed., Oxford University Press 2007
Drama III: Studies in Honour of Kevin Lee, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 87 (London) 2006, ed. with F. Muecke, J. Davidson
Music and the Muses: the Culture of ‘Mousike’ in the Classical Athenian City, ed. with P. Murray, Oxford University Press 2004
Articles
‘Choruses for sale in Thorikos?: a speculative note on SEG 34, 107’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 161 (2007) 125-32.
‘Pronomos and Potamon: two pipers and two epigrams’ Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007) 141-149.
‘Comic victory: the end, and going beyond’ in Visualizing the Tragic: Essays in Honour of Froma I. Zeitlin, eds. J. Elsner, H. Foley, S. Goldhill, E. Hall, C. Kraus, Oxford University Press, 2007, 257-87
‘The Athenian Thargelia’ in The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies, ed. P. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 2007, 150-184
‘Sicilian choruses’ in The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies, ed. P. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 2007, 351-377
‘diken in the Oresteia of Aeschylus’ in Greek Drama III: Studies in Honour of Kevin Lee, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 87 eds. P. Wilson, F. Muecke, J. Davidson, London, 2006, 187-201
‘The Music of Tragedy’, in The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. J. Gregory, Blackwell’s Oxford, 2005, 198-93
‘Jebb’s Ajax’ a critical introduction to a re-edition, under the general editorship of P. Easterling, of Sir Richard Jebb’s Commentary on the ‘Ajax’ of Sophocles, Bristol Classics Press 2004
‘Athenian Strings’, in Music and the Muses: the Culture of ‘Mousike’ in the Classical Athenian City, eds. P. Wilson and P. Murray, Oxford University Press, 2004, 269-306
‘The Politics of Dance: dithyrambic contest and social order in Greece’, in Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World, eds. D. Phillips and D. Pritchard, Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth, 2003, 165-198
‘The Sound of Cultural Conflict: Kritias and the culture of mousike in Athens’, in The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, eds. L. Kurke and C. Dougherty, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 181-206
‘The Musicians among the Actors’, in Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, eds. P. Easterling and E. Hall, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 41-70
‘Powers of horror and laughter: the great age of drama’ in Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds: a New Perspective, ed. O. Taplin, Oxford University Press, 2000, 88-132
‘Euripides’ Tragic Muse’, Euripides and Tragic Theatre in the Late Fifth Century (Illinois Classical Studies 24-25) eds. M. Cropp, K. Lee, D. Sansone, 2000, 427-450
‘The Aulos in Athens’, in Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy, eds. S. Goldhill and R. Osborne, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 58-95
‘Leading the Tragic Khoros: tragic prestige in the democratic city’, in Greek Tragedy and the Ancient Historian, ed. C. B. R. Pelling, Oxford University Press, 1997, 81-108
‘Tragic Rhetoric: the use of tragedy and the tragic in the fourth century’, in Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond, ed. M. Silk, Oxford University Press, 1996, 310-331
‘The “Aetiology” of Tragedy in the Oresteia’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Association 39 (1993) 169-180; co-authored with Oliver Taplin
‘Demosthenes 21, Against Meidias: democratic abuse’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Association 37 (1991) 164-195
Current project
Accounting for the Ancient Theatre: a new social and economic history of Classical Greek drama (Chief Investigator, with Prof. Eric Csapo)
